NSMB Yarn and NSMB Doki Doki Panic.
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Is the "New SMB"-series finally dead?
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NSMB Yarn and NSMB Doki Doki Panic.
razgriz417
Member
really hope they take a break with NSMB, its getting stale imo, need a 3d mario stat
DXB-KNIGHT
Member
NSMB needs a better artstyle and new worlds, I'm sick of playing through their cookie cutter worlds. Gameplay wise their magnificent though.
Gotta be honest, i wouldn't mind another super mario bros 2... i remember loving that game as a kid
You'll see another nsmb when a new nintendo console launches or not too long after. Is that big enough of a break?
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
relatively lackluster sales of NSMBWIU??
I'd like to correct that misconception.
Last I checked, which was fairly recently, attach rate was over 70%. 70%+!
That's mind-boggling.
No, sales are crazy for here, at least in the U.S.
It's hardware that's struggling to move due to lack of interest from consumers. But the consumers that are buying have spoken very bluntly they are buying the system for this game (and based on other software sales, only this game... sad. ha)
Ant you act like you're not critical of any game not named smash bros.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
IdreamofHIME
Member
I don't even understand your bloody op.
"Is NSMB dead? Coz the 3DS version sold really well and Nintendo has committed itself to DLC for both the 3DS and WiiU versions.
That's means it's dead....right guys? Right?"
Makes no freaking sense to me.
"Is NSMB dead? Coz the 3DS version sold really well and Nintendo has committed itself to DLC for both the 3DS and WiiU versions.
That's means it's dead....right guys? Right?"
Makes no freaking sense to me.
no, not at all. i do think they're done with it on the current 2 platforms. they have 3 different 2D platformer franchises left that i can think of without dipping back into 2D Mario: donkey kong, kirby, and yoshi. 3DS is getting Donkey Kong this year. hopefully Wii U gets that Yoshi Yarn game.
megabytecr
Member
I hope not, really enjoyed NSMBU.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
OT used to be above the "lol wrong forum" jokes. smh
razgriz417
Member
Yea I could live with that since they're a few years off
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Classic side scrolling Mario games will never die. Maybe they'll call it by a new name, but they'll always be around.
Mango The Magician
Banned
What part of "once per Nintendo console" do people not understand? 
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
God willing? Yes!
What part of "once per Nintendo console" do people not understand?
The part that kills their complaining about there being too many NSMB games, I guess.
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In my case you're right because of the crap and rehashed art style. Thanks Nintendo!
Blame yourself. NSMBU is a good looking game.
NSMBU is (in my opinion) the best looking, and also my favourite 2D Mario game. To be fair, I didn't heavily get into the 2D Marios as a youngster so there's not really much nostalgic attachment for me. NSMBU looks great and plays great, and I had tons of fun with it. Considering there are SEVERAL other popular games that put out far more than one home game per generation, all with very similar graphics as the previous ones, I'm kind of annoyed at how often people rag on it for being milked.
I don't even mind the BAHs. *prepares for opinion to be "invalidated"*
I don't even mind the BAHs. *prepares for opinion to be "invalidated"*
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Rehashed is good looking? I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
God I hope so. NSMB series while an interesting idea at first really does seem to be the most soulless thing to come out of nintendo proper. From the elevator style music to sequels that could be level/powerup DLC for the previous versions, it really just feels like the laziest designed-for-cheap-sequels game series ever. More Galaxy and 3DLand, and for 2D platforming maybe some beautiful HQ spritework would be good.
Rehashed doesn't have to mean bad looking. Just because it uses similar assets to a previous game (that was in far lower resolution on far slower hardware) doesn't mean that the new backgrounds can't be pretty, or that the sprite lighting system can't look really cool, or that the IQ can't be one of the cleanest looking 720p games ever released. It's bright and colourful and crisp and fun looking, I really like it.
Just because Crysis 3 uses some assets from the previous games doesn't mean it looks like pure shit.
Sounds like shit, though. Insta-mute bwa.
It's technically proficient. Like a Minotaur or space marine you'd see in a Full Sail ad. U's technical proficiency, its gloss, allows it to approximate the aesthetic of a Duplo Super Mario Galaxy game with all of the marrow sucked out of it. At best.
Agreed although I'm pretty good at ignoring it.
The thing is that they have been doing it for a long time (decades). Even though we only get one Mario Kart per system, it feels like there are more Mario Karts than Call of Duty games because you have been playing a Mario Kart game since childhood.
Indeed. Wish they'd start make 2D Marios with the same amount of effort they put in Galaxy.
I don't really follow the reasoning in the OP though. DLC won't stop them from making more sometime on future platforms. But hopefully they'll make some good 2D Marios sometime inbetween.
It's really absurd. Seven Call of Dutys, Six Assassin's Creeds, FIIIIIIIIIIIIVE Tony Hawks!, Four Halos, Three Uncharteds, Two 3D Marios, and a single NSMB game.
That's terrible. I was expecting attach rates between 100 - 120%.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
It's been like 6 months since the last one and they're still pimping DLC for it. Why would you think it's dead?
I never understand how four NSMB games across 4 consoles in 7 years get grouped together as being too much, when nobody complains when the Vita and PSP versions of various FPS, God of War and Assassins Creed games, sharing a fair amount of gameplay, weapons, art style etc, often release within a month of their big brother counterparts, making a couple of them turn up even faster than annually these days. I think Mario is just an easy target in comparison, given that they promote the handheld games as major entries in their own right rather than treating them as tiny forgotten stepchildren.
Give it a year or so and it'll die down- it's because NSMBWii appeared mid-cycle, 3 years before NSMBWiiU that it seems close. I expect we won't see another home console one for five years, not with Yoshi, kirby and donkey kong all proven sellers. Imagine the uproar if we got a NSMB on a home console on a bi-yearly basis. That would just be utterly creatively bankrupt, wouldn't it.
Give it a year or so and it'll die down- it's because NSMBWii appeared mid-cycle, 3 years before NSMBWiiU that it seems close. I expect we won't see another home console one for five years, not with Yoshi, kirby and donkey kong all proven sellers. Imagine the uproar if we got a NSMB on a home console on a bi-yearly basis. That would just be utterly creatively bankrupt, wouldn't it.
I mean on the Xbox 360 we've had:
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Call of Duty: Ghosts
and
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed 2
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed 3
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
And that's not even counting the portable versions!
Meanwhile, Nintendo puts out four NSMB games across four entirely separate platforms and people are on their ass about it.
Hell, there have been more God of War games this gen than NSMB games even
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Nobody complains, huh?
But in a way this is even more annoying than the yearly installment games, because with more years between games AND platform jumps, you'd expect a bigger difference between the games.
Instead, same engine, same assets, same music... for 7 years now.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I still think it's here to stay for a bit longer, they'll knock it out of the park with the next one and make boatloads of money. I'm not sure what else they could do...maybe reach back into the well and use enemies like from the Land series?
But NSMBU looks WAY better than NSMBWii, in lighting, asset quality, resolution, and backgrounds, plus there's a whole world map with secret exits and shotcuts and whatnot. NSMBU really stepped it up and it doesn't deserve the hate it gets, especially when it builds so much on top of NSMBWii, which is widely regarded as excellent
Yes, that was rather unfortunate timing, wasn't it
Can you honestly say which Modern Warfare this is from without looking at the image info?
Well, it's not the same assets, and it was the same music for a while but not anymore, and can you prove it's the same engine? The killing joke for these games is that they use the same art style for each game, and that gets way too hard to differentiate.